Projects

Mykyta Kliapets will focus on the use of artificail intelligence and machine learning in astrophysics, specifically concerning machine-learning applications to large astronomical survey data sets with an aim of discovering the optimal targets to "industrialize" asteroseismic modeling of stars of intermediate to high mass.

The way the heaviest elements of the table of Mendeleev are constructed from their building blocks (the
electrons, protons and neutrons) and how they are formed in the Universe remains puzzling. Also, what can be
learned in that repect from the merging of two neutron stars, as recently observed through gravitational and
electromagnetic waves, is a highly unexplored terrain.
We propose an interlaced experimental and theoretical ...

This proposal pursues an ambitious yet timely effort on extracting fundamental and astrophysics from gravitational-wave detection, spanning from data analysis to phenomenology related to ground and space-based interferometric detectors. In particular, I proposed to focus on 1) Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves, 2) Probing General Relativity and exotic compact objects, 3) Uncovering the nature of dark matter, and 4) Core-collapse ...

I will use the ground-breaking spectroscopic LEGA-C survey to understand the star-forming phase of disk galaxies at a look back time of 7 billion years by studying the dynamics of ionised gas. The new data is of unprecedented high quality for its sample size of thousands of galaxies and contains for the first time detailed information about the dynamics, ages and chemical composition of the stellar content. I will constrain, for the first ...

The research programme at the 'Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica' concentrates on fundamental nuclear physics and its applications. The experimental research combines work at the local detector and laser laboratories at KU Leuven with campaigns at ISOLDE-CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), GANIL (Caen, France) and other major international facilities. Project The heaviest elements of Mendeleev's table form an ...

The heaviest elements of Mendeleev's table form an intriguing research laboratory of interest for nuclear, atomic and astro-physics. The heaviest element experimentally produced on earth is Oganesson (118 protons). Such heavy atoms are radioactive and short lived but theory predicts an island of stability when going to even heavier elements. Their atomic structure is influenced by strong relativistic effects making it challenging to predict ...

ian partners of KULeuven, ULB, UGent, ULiège and of SCKU+2022CEN, together with the international partners from GANIL, CEA-Saclay, GSI and UKöln aggregate common scientific activities in the Belgian Research Initiative on eXotic nuclei (BriX network). The prime research theme focuses on the study of far-unstable radioactive isotopes. Nuclear physics aspects, related to the structure and reactivity of exotic nuclei; nuclear astrophysics ...

The proposed network brings together the Belgian expertise on theoretical and experimental nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics and accelerator driven systems, and will execute, in a coherent and collaborative effort, a research program focussed around radioactive ion beam research. Together with the EU partners, a carefully sleected sample of atomic nuclei most of them with extreme proton to neutron ratios will be studied to bring key ...